Gooey: Soft & Sticky (DG217)

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Code of conduct

• This assignment will not be considered to be completed if
  • you attend less than 60% of the meetings.
  • you fail to deliver any of the presentations and the reports in time.
  • you quit the assignment.
• Any excuses of not attending the meetings must be emailed to me 2 hours piror to the scheduled time.
• No excuse after the scheduled time.

Assignment description

• See GooeySoftAndSticky.

Approach

• learning by doing (together)
• learning from each other
• book, book, and yet another book.

Groups

• Group “Gui Bloopers”
  • Nick Hermans
  • Olaf Corduwener
  • Ine Mols
• Group “Software for Use”
  • Roland Coops
  • Laura van Geel
  • Meerthe Heuvelings
• Group "User interface design for Programmers". Selected task: IDPortal redesign.
  • Luc Peulen
  • Ruud Mestrom
  • Hakki Altun
• Group "Don't make me think". Selected task: OS
  • Josje Wijnen
  • Maarten Geraets
  • Sippe Duisters

Schedule

Week 1

Lecture

• Introduction to GUI and Overview of the history attachment:GooeySoftAndSticky/GooeyHistory.pdf

Homework

• Form 4 teams.
• Every team starts reading a book on GUI. You may share the chapters inside your team. In the following 3 meetings, each team presents 3 "golden tips" learned from the book, and each tip should come with 2 examples that are not from the book.
• Every team takes one of the following tasks. You are supposed to complete the task in 4 weeks. In the last meeting, every team should present the results.
  1. Find two extreme examples of web designs of the same kind, that the team likes most and hates most. Redesign the worst example. Presents the results.
  2. Compare two OS GUIs (for example MAC OS X, KDE, GNOME, and Windows Desktop). Redesigns one of them for a target user group of the team's choice. Presents the results.
  3. Design GUI for a new IDPortal. You have to start from requirement analysis and the final design should meet the requirements.

  4. Design a professional and user-friendly personal website for prof.dr. Matthias Rauterberg. http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/g.w.m.rauterberg/

Resources

• Ubuntu live CD (GNOME desktop): http://www.ubuntu.com

• Kbuntu live CD (KDE desktop): http://www.kubuntu.org

• Knoppix live CD (KDE desktop): http://www.knoppix.org/

• Solaris 10: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/

Week 2

• Introduction to GUI and Overview of the history attachment:GooeySoftAndSticky/GooeyHistory.pdf

Week 3

Activity

• 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)
• If we have got extra time, we will watch this attachment:GooeySoftAndSticky/commercial.wmv together and discuss about it.

Presentations

Week 4

Activity

• 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)

Presentations

Week 5

Activity

• 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)

Presentations

Week 6

Week 7

Activity

• Final presentations (results of the team task)

• Q&A session

• Feedback session

Presentations

Homework

• Individual report (no more than 2-page A4 in 10-point typeface) on
  • what has been learned;
  • feedback on the assignment: complaints, comments and suggestions
  • to be delivered it by next Tuesday, 5:00pm
• If you deliver your report through email, please indicate "DA259" in the subject.